# Roading/Streets, Northwood Boulevard, Northwood, 8051, Canterbury

Northwood, Christchurch · filed 31 January 2019 · report 608235
https://www.chch.live/report/608235

> Your guys have recently cut down a tree on the boulevard after it fell across my fence in last Wednesday night’s storm. Can I please request that you do not replace it for two reasons: First, the branches are heading towards my foundations, and have already cracked the public footpath next to the tree. I imagine there will be a team repairing this and other footpaths disrupted by these badly chosen trees. The second reason is that this tree has large flat leaves. During autumn, it will take very few of these flat leaves spread out to block a drain and cause a blockage. I have already been compelled to make repairs caused by multiple blockages in my spouting. Because the council has chosen not to bring out their gutter vacuum truck as often as in the past, we are at the mercy these large, flat leaves in our gutters. Is it any wonder that there are so many flooding events when it rains during or after autumn. Regular cleaning of the gutters before the rain arrives would certainly cut down on call outs for council staff. But I digress. If you do not replace the tree that fell, then I will no longer have leaves blocking by gutters, and I won’t have to keep sweeping leaves out of my garage and off my drive. Thanks Brian

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## The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Remove Dead Animal, 3 m away · resolved 28 Aug 2026, took 7 days
- Garden (Road), 4 m away · resolved 11 Nov 2020, took 6 weeks
- Potholes, 4 m away · resolved 16 Aug 2023, took 45 hours
- Pothole (Road), 6 m away · resolved 2 May 2019, took 3 months
- Flooding, 8 m away · resolved 1 May 2025, took 28 min
- Blockage/Water Not Draining, 8 m away · resolved 17 Oct 2023, took 19 months
- Blockage/Water Not Draining, 10 m away · resolved 8 May 2023, took 7 weeks
- Blocked drain pipe or waterway (Road), 10 m away · resolved 21 May 2020, took 10 days
MyCouncilTicket is a different door from the public report, one job can stand in both streams. The whole roll: https://www.chch.live/fixed

The problem: https://www.chch.live/problems/road-damage
The street the pin lands nearest: https://www.chch.live/street/northwood/baltic-place
The filed address the pin lands 1 m from: https://www.chch.live/northwood/20-baltic-place
The suburb: https://www.chch.live/northwood
What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.460280521566915&lon=172.62046152049012

Data: https://api.chch.live/report?id=608235